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I thought the previous version was good but some chords were slightly wrong.

--------CAPO 2----------

Original Key is E Major

x|x|0|2|3|2 D
x|0|2|2|2|0 A
x|x|0|2|1|2 D7
3|5|5|4|3|3 G
2|4|4|2|2|2 F#m
0|2|2|0|0|0 Em
0|2|2|0|3|0 Em7

Intro:

A (x02220@1)               D (xx0232@1)   
     DShe (xx0232@1)unscrews the top of a new whiskey bottle 
    (D)                               AAnd (x02220@1)shuffles about in her candle lit hovel,
     (A)              
Like some kind of witch with blue fingers in mittens
     (A)                                        D (xx0232@1)She smells like the cat and the neighbours she sickens, 
    DThe (xx0232@1)black and white t.v. has long seen a picture
    D7 (xx0212@1)                    Em7 
The cross on the wall is a permanent fixture,
     A (x02220@1)The postman delivers the final reminders 
     (A)                     G (320003@1)F#m (244222@1)Em (022000@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D
She sells off her silver and poodles in china.

Chorus: 
 (D)                  Em7
Drinks to remember, I me and myself
     A (x02220@1)                                         DAnd (xx0232@1)winds up the clock and knocks dust from the shelf 
 (D)                    Em7
Home is a love that I miss very much
       A (x02220@1)                       G (320003@1)F#m (244222@1) Em (022000@1)  D (xx0232@1)So the past has been bottled and labelled with love.

D (xx0232@1)                    
During the war time an american pilot 
(D)                               AMade (x02220@1)every air raid a time of excitement, 
    (A)
She moved to his prairie and married the texan 
    (A)                                    DShe (xx0232@1)learnt from a distance how love was a lesson, 
(D) 
He became drinker and she became mother 
    D7 (xx0212@1)                       Em7
She knew that one day she'd be one or the other, 
   A (x02220@1)He ate himself older, drunk himself dizzy 
 A (x02220@1)                       G (320003@1) F#m (244222@1)Em (022000@1)DProud (xx0232@1)of her features, she kept herself pretty.

(Chorus)

D (xx0232@1)He like a cowboy died drunk in a slumber 
(D)                                AOut (x02220@1)on the porch in the middle of summer,
(A)        
She crossed the ocean back home to her family 
(A)                                      DBut (xx0232@1)they had retired to roads that were sandy, 
    (D)                        
She moved home alone without friends or relations 
D7 (xx0212@1)                     Em7
Lived in a world full of age reservation, 
   A (x02220@1)                          
On moth eaten armchairs she'd say that she's sod all 
    (A)                         G (320003@1)   F#m (244222@1)Em (022000@1)DThe (xx0232@1)friends who had left her to drink from the bottle.

Chorus x2

A (x02220@1)                       G (320003@1)F#m (244222@1) Em (022000@1) DThe (xx0232@1)past has been bottled and labelled with love
    A (x02220@1)                                    G (320003@1)F#m (244222@1) Em (022000@1) DThe (xx0232@1)past h________as been bottled..... and labelled with love

D (Fade out)

(I think it might play the chorus chords while fading. I end on D)
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